Current Employment

Company:	The Gass Company, Inc.
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	President - Consultant providing dispute resolution services as an umpire, arbitrator, and mediator to the reinsurance and insurance industry.
Address:	76 Hopewell Woods Road Redding, CT 06896-1728
Phone:	203-227-9431
Fax:	212-208-3003
Email:	rgass@gassco.com
Website:	www.gassco.com

Previous Employment

Company:

XL Reinsurance America Inc. (formerly NAC Reinsurance Corporation)

Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Vice President and Associate General Counsel - Extensive reinsurance business experience in a broad range of issues including reinsurance contract wordings and interpretation; MGA transactions and disputes; retrocessionaire collections and disputes; reinsurance arbitrations, litigation and mediation; surety reinsurance; aviation reinsurance; commutations; receiverships and rehabilitations; setoffs; and technology; and U.S. economic sanctions-related coverage disputes

Company:	American Insurance Association
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary - Extensive experience in business issues and litigation involving ceded reinsurance, property and catastrophe insurance, medical professional liability insurance, and insurance antitrust law

Company:	Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	General Counsel, Assistant Vice President and Secretary - Extensive experience in occurrence and claims-made medical professional liability insurance

Company:	Office of the Maryland Attorney General
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Assistant Attorney General - Administrative hearings counsel to various state health care practitioner licensure and disciplinary agencies

Credentials

Attorney:	Yes
Education:	Education: J.D., University of Maryland School of Law – 1979; M.A., University of Chicago – 1975; B.A., Duke University – 1973; Mediation Workshop, Harvard Law School - Program of Instruction for Lawyers – 2004; Member of the Connecticut and Maryland bars.
Other Information:	Frequent author and speaker on a variety of important industry topics in such publications and forums as ARIAS-U.S. Quarterly, Best’s Review, Global Reinsurance, BestWeek, TortSource, JTW News, ARIAS-U.S., Mealey’s Reinsurance Roundtable and Reinsurance 101 Conference, Practising Law Institute, American Conference Institute, RAA Education Conference, BRMA, IRU, CPCU Society, ABA/TTIPS, and A.M. Best. For publications, see my Web site at www.gassco.com.

Work Experience

Insurance Company: 2 years

Legal Department: 2 years. General Counsel, AVP, and Corporate Secretary

Reinsurance Company: 8 years

Legal Department: 8 years. Associate General Counsel and VP

Law Firm (Insurance/Reinsurance Practice): 2 years

Associate: 2 years.

Insurance-related Firms: 7 years

7 years. Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, American Insurance Association, Law Department

Independent/Other Relevant Experience: 10 years

Other: 3 years. Assistant Attorney General

Independent/Unaffiliated Arbitrator, Umpire and/or Mediator: 7 years. Arbitrator and Umpire

Breakdown of Experience

Accident & Health   5% Asbestos   5% Aviation   5% Bad Faith/ECO   5% Commercial Liability   5% Commercial Property   5% Contract Wording   5% Environmental/Pollution   5% Fidelity & Surety   5% Healthcare   5% Insolvencies   5%

Intellectual Property   5% MGA/MGU   5% Ocean Marine   5% Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions   5% Toxic Tort   5% Worker's Compensation   5% Regulatory/Licensing   1% Third Party Administrator   1% Personal Lines   1% Political Risk   1% Product Liability   1%

Libel/Slander/Media Liability   1% Financial Guarantee   1% Excess/Surplus Lines   1% Directors & Officers   1% Commutations   1% Captives/Risk Retention Groups   1% Catastrophes (Casualty)   1% Catastrophes (Property)   1% Automotive Liability/Property   1% Agricultural   1%

By Market

U.S. Market: 80%

U.K. Market: 15%

Bermuda/Off-shore Market: 1%

European Market: 2%

Global Market: 2%

Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 20/80%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 80/20%
Former Insurance or Reinsurance Company Officer

Mediation Experience

Number of Mediations

As Counsel: 2

ARIAS Experience

Workshops, as Faculty: 7; January 2003, September 2003, February 2004, September 2004, September 2006, March 2008, May 2010

Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; February 27, 2009

ARIAS Conference Faculty: 4; Spring 2002, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008

Arbitration Experience

Number of Arbitrations

As an Arbitrator: 81
As an Umpire: 18
As Employee Manager: 6

Arbitrator Experience

Number of Arbitrations

26	Appointed as an arbitrator.
25	Acted as an arbitrator through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
4	Acted as an arbitrator through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage and the resolution of significant pre-hearing motions.
1	Acted as an arbitrator through an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
4	Acted as an arbitrator through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
21	Acted as an arbitrator through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Umpire Experience

Number of Arbitrations

1	Appointed as an umpire.
3	Acted as an umpire through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
5	Acted as an umpire through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage and the resolution of significant pre-hearing motions.
1	Acted as an umpire through an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
1	Acted as an umpire through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
7	Acted as an umpire through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Employee Manager Experience

Number of Arbitrations

4	Employee Manager of arbitration.
1	Employee Manager of arbitration through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
1	Employee Manager of arbitration through evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Biography

Ron Gass is an attorney and an ARIAS-U.S. Certified Arbitrator, Umpire, and Qualified Mediator. Most of his 29-year legal career has been devoted exclusively to his reinsurance and insurance practice involving a broad range of complex business issues including coverage disputes arising from various lines of business such as asbestos and environmental liability, workers’ comp carve-outs, general liability, medical malpractice liability, medical stop loss insurance, and property and catastrophe insurance. He also has significant experience with reinsurance collections, MGA transactions and disputes, surety reinsurance, aviation and ocean marine reinsurance, reinsurance contract wordings and interpretation, reinsurance intermediary disputes, and commutations.

In 2001, Mr. Gass established his own firm to provide arbitrator and umpire dispute resolution services to the reinsurance and insurance industry. Since that time, he has been appointed as an umpire or party-arbitrator in over 95 arbitrations. In 2004, he completed The Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop. Prior to commencing his arbitration practice, Mr. Gass was Vice President and Associate General Counsel in the Legal Division of XL Reinsurance America Inc. (formerly NAC Reinsurance Corporation).

Mr. Gass is a graduate of Duke University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Maryland School of Law and admitted to practice before the Connecticut and Maryland bars.